Emerging mar­kets are cur­rently expe­ri­encing an eco­nomic slow­down, according to scholars and busi­ness leaders who spoke at the fifth annual Emerging Mar­kets Sym­po­sium on Tuesday at North­eastern. They pointed to […]

Global busi­ness strate­gist Vijay Govin­darajan said on Monday at Northeastern’s Pres­i­den­tial Speaker Series “Pro­files in Inno­va­tion” that reverse inno­va­tion rep­re­sents one of the biggest oppor­tu­ni­ties for cor­po­rate growth in America.

Mass­a­chu­setts Gov. Deval Patrick said on Thursday at Northeastern’s fourth annual Emerging Mar­kets Sym­po­sium that the state’s edu­ca­tion, inno­va­tion and infra­struc­ture make it an ideal busi­ness partner.

In 2001, Goldman Sachs grouped the BRIC coun­tries — Brazil, Russia, India and China — into that acronym because they were at a sim­ilar stage of eco­nomic devel­op­ment. On Tuesday, the Amer­ican multi­na­tional news cor­po­ra­tion Bloomberg named China as the only BRIC nation ranked among all top global emerging mar­kets. We asked Ravi Rama­murti, Dis­tin­guished Pro­fessor of Inter­na­tional Busi­ness and director of the Center for Emerging Mar­kets at North­eastern, to iden­tify what’s next for these four countries.

Despite the global eco­nomic slow­down, India has expe­ri­enced rapid eco­nomic growth, and is now hoping to attract invest­ment from global com­pa­nies. At The Economist’s recent India Busi­ness Summit in Paris, […]

North­eastern Uni­ver­sity Pro­fessor and Born­stein Senior Fellow of Inter­na­tional Busi­ness Ravi Rama­murti has been selected by the United Nations Con­fer­ence on Trade and Devel­op­ment (UNCTAD) to help pre­pare its World […]

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